Elizabeth Loftus: Quotes about people

Elizabeth Loftus is American cognitive psychologist. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“Memory works like a Wikipedia page: You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.”

Elizabeth Loftus

How reliable is your memory? https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_loftus_the_fiction_of_memory?language=en#t-320055 June 2013

Memory , People , Change

“Even if it's going to be a harmful memory, they don't want to let it go. (This is) why sometimes I get such resistance to the work I do. Because it's telling people that your mind might be full of much more fiction than you realize. And people don't like that.”

Elizabeth Loftus

Trust your memory? Maybe you shouldn't http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/18/health/lifeswork-loftus-memory-malleability/ (05/18/2013)

People , Memory

“In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.”

Elizabeth Loftus

Source: Eyewitness Testimony (1979), p. 62

Life , People

“Therapists probably can't ethically do it, and they may have anti-deception provisions in their standards of conduct. But bad governments, bad people, they don't have requirements of conduct. When we recently published a study about planting false memories among U. S. soldiers, I was worried we were putting out a recipe for how you can do horrible things to somebody and then wipe their memory away.”

Elizabeth Loftus

I could have sworn...Why you can’t trust your memory https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929310-400-i-could-have-sworn-why-you-cant-trust-your-memory/ (8/21/2013)

People , Study , Memory , Falseness